Sen. Majority Leader Harry Reid charged Friday that Chief Justice John Roberts tricked Congress by pretending to be a moderate while he was actually a stalwart conservative.
CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez said on Sunday his U.S. counterpart Barack Obama was at best an "ignoramus" for saying the socialist leader exported terrorism and obstructed progress in Latin America.
"He goes and accuses me of exporting terrorism: the least I can say is that he's a poor ignoramus; he should read and study a little to understand reality," said Chavez, who heads a group of left-wing Latin American leaders opposed to the U.S. influence in the region.
An unidentified gunman shot and killed the Rev. Fred Winders, pastor of the First Baptist Church in Maryville, during the 8:30 a.m. service Sunday. Two parishioners tackled the gunman to the ground, all three suffering stab wounds after the gunman brandished a knife.
The participants spoke on condition of anonymity because the Cabinet meeting was closed. They said Yadlin told them that Iran continues to accumulate uranium for enrichment and hopes to exploit the Obama administration's intention to open a dialogue as a cover for developing nuclear weapons.
House Minority Leader John Boehner, R-Ohio, said the bill is loaded with "unscrutinized taxpayer-funded earmarks" that are "a textbook example of why Americans have grown so fed up with Washington."
But Ellis said the rationale for a spending freeze is weak, given that the stimulus package was passed and follows a Keynesian model of economics that advocates for increased government spending during a recession.
Ellis said his group is not in favor of spending freezes in general because they fail to root out government waste.
"I'm not being dismissive of Minority Leader Boehner's approach," Ellis said. "That's certainly a tool. But we need to have a smart tool" to cut government waste.
Ellis said the only way the spending bill would fail is if one of the amendments proposed in the Senate succeeds, because he doubts the House would vote again on the measure.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., privately threatened to abandon the bill altogether Thursday night, infuriated that GOP leaders were stalling it even though they helped craft it and have a big stake in its passage, according to a Democratic leadership aide. The aide demanded anonymity to speak frankly about a private meeting.
If the larger spending bill ends up being amended by the Senate, the House would again have to act on that bill, giving Republicans more chances to launch political attacks.
Senate Democratic leaders prevailed upon Pelosi to stick with the measure for now. Letting it die would deny large spending increases for some of Democrats' favorite programs, such as food aid for children and pregnant women, in addition to billions of dollars for lawmakers' pet projects.
Last night, Senate Majority Leader Harry M. Reid (D-Nev.) canceled a final procedural vote that would have cleared the way for final passage and announced that debate will continue at least through Monday. Meanwhile, Reid said the Senate will consider further amendments, while he scoured for at least one more vote to reach the 60 needed to break a Republican-led filibuster.
This is a good article. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123621098187034487.html
Americans are ready for a message of economic growth, but who will deliver it?
Someone said, "A crisis is a terrible thing to waste." Why are the Republicans wasting it?
If the Democrats are willing to bet the entire U.S. economy on a 1931 theory known as the Keynesian multiplier, surely Republicans can excavate and relearn the core idea handed down to them by Ronald Reagan. That idea was known as economic growth.
Freed to choose between these two competing ideas, I'm guessing many voters would go for growth. All that's needed is just one Republican who can explain this idea halfway as well as Ronald Reagan.
Arguably at no time in their lives have more Americans been this sharply focused on the economy. They think and talk about nothing else. The Republicans have been handed on a tarnished silver platter the chance to offer the American people an alternative vision of how their economy works -- and grows.
They should take political ownership of the 75% of the U.S. economy that the Democrats have abandoned -- the private economy.
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